Mount McAdie is a summit on the crest of the Sierra Nevada, and is located south of Mount Whitney. It has three summits, with the north peak being the highest. The summit ridge marks the boundary between

Sequoia National Park Sequoia National Park is an American national park in the southern Sierra Nevada east of Visalia, California. The park was established on September 25, 1890, and today protects of forested mountainous terrain. Encompassing a vertical relief ...

and the

John Muir Wilderness The John Muir Wilderness is a wilderness area that extends along the crest of the Sierra Nevada of California for , in the Inyo and Sierra National Forests. Established in 1964 by the Wilderness Act and named for naturalist John Muir, it encompa ...

. It is also on the boundary between Inyo and Tulare counties. Lone Pine, to the northeast, is in the

Owens Valley Owens Valley ( Numic: ''Payahǖǖnadǖ'', meaning "place of flowing water") is an arid valley of the Owens River in eastern California in the United States. It is located to the east of the Sierra Nevada, west of the White Mountains and Iny ...

on U.S. 395. In 1905, the mountain was named in honor of Alexander G. McAdie by James E. Church. McAdie ran the U.S. Weather Bureau in

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

at the time, and had visited the summit of Mount Whitney in 1903. The name first appeared on a map in 1956 with the publication of the

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, 15 minute, Mount Whitney Quadrangle

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. The north summit can be reached from Arc Pass, and was first climbed by

Norman Clyde Norman Clyde (April 8, 1885 – December 23, 1972) was a mountaineer, mountain guide, freelance writer, nature photographer, and self-trained naturalist. He is well known for achieving over 130 first ascents, many in California's Sierra Nevada ...

in 1922. The west face was first climbed in 1954, and is a ascent. In 1968, capable rock climber 27-year-old Anita Ossofsky and a fellow climber, who were well qualified and properly equipped, ascended class 3 terrain on Mt. McAdie in good weather from Arc Pass, traversed from the east face of Middle Peak to the gulley (which divides Middle and North Peaks), and at the top of the gulley, apparently a hand-hold of Ossofsky's gave way. She fell approximately 10 feet to a ledge, from which she rolled off and fell about an additional 150 feet before coming to rest in the gulley, dying immediately. Mount McAdie from the summit of Whitney

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:McAdie, Mount Inyo National Forest Mountains of Sequoia National Park Mountains of the John Muir Wilderness Mountains of Inyo County, California Mountains of Tulare County, California Mountains of Northern California Sierra Nevada (United States)